what's up fungal associates welcome to completely arbitrary the podcast about

trees and other related topics emphasis on other related topics today Casey

Alex I am one of your hosts Alice Croson sitting along here with Mr. Jonathan

Casey Klaub Alexander Croson not my name not my name either wow it's a

truce I am John Casey clap there is no within I see I am Alex Kurt Croson

mm-hmm how about that actually I believe I knew that but I didn't think about it

before I said that yeah so now my brain I think was just like this will be

good without checking with the rest of my brain and it just it just came out

it turns out the rest of my brain actually giving it a thumbs up from like

deep in the ether that's kind of your mo right yeah it's you know in a

Star Wars they're like shoot first like or no someone says like shoot first

ask questions later yeah exactly I think I talk first ask questions later

yeah think later and then ideally if I can keep talking while my brain catches

up and then I can correct all the things as I say them yes no one knows yeah

no one knows nobody knows Alex I have a pretty good idea from making this

podcast with you yeah you're you're not anyway Casey I listen today this this

episode is is I will just say it this episode is controversial it is it's

controversial that's without going without without a doubt from the very

beginning you and I every week without fail have talked about with that

a tree specifically this week we are I'm going to say kind of talking about a

somewhat of a tree you know I think that is I think that's fair I think we

should still say we're talking about a tree maybe not like the tree in terms of

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